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The Apprentice is a British business-styled reality television broadcast by the BBC since 16 February 2005. In the show, hopefuls compete in teams in a series of business-related tasks, with the ultimate prize of a £250,000 investment from business magnate Lord Alan Sugar. Prior to Series 7, the prize consisted of a high-paying job within one of Sugar's companies. Based on the American original, there have been a total of fifteen series broadcast.

Contestants on the show are referred to as "candidates", with the theme of the show imitating a job interview. Candidates compete in teams, generally split at the start of the season into men and women, later becoming more shuffled as the series progresses. Each episode, at least one candidate is "fired" by Lord Sugar, usually after a "board room" process involving the losing team's project manager and two other candidates selected by the manager as having performed poorly.

Candidates generally apply to be on the show. According to those who have applied to be on the show, this will generally have attended an open interview process and competed against thousands of other applicants. Successful candidates from this stage will be invited to London for further activities and to determine their fitness for the show, finally being whittled down so that filming can begin.

A total of 245 candidates have appeared on the show (as of Series 15). One candidate, in Series 5, pulled out at the last minute citing personal reasons, and was not replaced; as a result, the series remains the only one to have featured an uneven number of candidates. There have been 16 winners of the show, after joint winners were crowned in Series 13. A number of candidates have quit the show for various reasons, most notably Katie Hopkins in Series 3.

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